Samantha Is Participating in a Psychology Experiment in Which She

question 151

Multiple Choice

Samantha is participating in a psychology experiment in which she sees a sentence on a computer screen and is to decide as quickly as possible whether the sentence is true or false. According to the defining attribute model, Samantha will say "true" to the sentence "A penguin is a bird" ____________ she will say "true" to the sentence "A robin is a bird."

• A) more slowly than
• B) more quickly than
• C) with equal speed as
• D) b or c

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